Management and Finance Director, Global Resilience Against Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (GRAD TB)-Proposal

Hours: Full-time **

Location: Chevy Chase, MD; US-Remote

Salary: Commensurate with required experience and qualifications

Reports to: Project Director

University Research Co., LLC (URC)**

Guided by a strong vision of equitable and resilient systems that respond to people’s needs and emerging threats, URC helps countries and local actors to build, implement, and sustain science-driven, scalable solutions. Established in 1965, URC offers a range of technical expertise to empower governments, communities, and service providers toward strengthening their own health and social systems and improve service quality. We aim to expand access to and improve the quality of services, addressing maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health; global health security and infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria; reproductive health and family planning; nutrition and water, sanitation, and hygiene. In our interactions with each other and our clients, we stay true to our values for transformative change by focusing on:

• Creativity: by unleashing our creativity, we enhance engagement and interaction to improve problem-solving.
• Collaboration: not only our work towards the same vision and mission instill staff with a strong sense of purpose, but also enables us to complement each other’s skills and allocate work to maximize everyone’s strengths.
• Accountability: we hold ourselves responsible for accomplishing goals, completing assignments, and making decisions.
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion: we embrace the importance of a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, where our leadership and staff model behavior that enriches our organization, demonstrates respect for all people, and supports opportunities for all staff.
• Transparency: we understand that when employees deeply trust one another and their leaders, they will be more engaged in their roles because they will not be worried about unfair treatment.

Project Overview

URC is seeking Management and Finance Director the anticipated, five-year, USAID Global Resilience Against Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (GRAD TB). The Management and Finance Director will be the lead expert on and provide oversight to all aspects related to management including procurement and sub-awarding, and the overall financial administration of the project.

The anticipated GRAD TB project will have an estimated award of 90M with a global scope of work entails concurrent operations in multiple countries. The project is designed to scale up and improve management of DR TB in USAID supported countries, with a focus on expanding access to high quality treatment services. It will provide specialized technical assistance to enhance the quality of DR-TB program in TB priority and Global Fund Technical Assistance countries. **

Responsibilities:**

The Management and Finance Director will be the lead expert on and provide oversight to all aspects related to management including procurement and sub-awarding and the overall financial administration of the Activity.

The specific duties and responsibilities of this position will include the following:

• Ensures award procurement practices are in compliance with USAID policies, rules, and regulations;
• Maximize efficiencies, both in cost and operationally, in the implementation of the activity;
• Execute management processes and methodologies to ensure results are delivered on time and within budget;
• Ensure timely, high-quality, and complete submission of all reporting requirements;
• Ensure USAID Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning principles are met and that documentation and dissemination of findings, impact of the activity, innovations, best practices, success stories and lessons learned;
• Oversee and lead cost-efficient sub-awarding of multiple organizations within host countries;
• Responsible for efficient use of funding provided to administer and manage GRAD-TB;
• Responsible for all program accounting and financial reporting systems and related reporting in compliance with USAID financial and accounting rules and regulations, including the management of multiple funding sources from USAID entities.

Qualifications:

• Education: BS. or BA in Accounting, Business, International Development or a related subject. Graduate degree preferred.
• Financial experience on donor funded projects of similar size and scope. Experience implementing multi-country US Government projects preferred.;
• Senior level operations experience and experience ensuring that Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning principles are met;
• Experience overseeing documentation and dissemination of findings, impact of the activity, innovations, best practices, success stories and lessons learned;
• USAID experience required;
• Supervisory experience;
• At least 15 years’ of progressively responsible experience managing/oversight of finance, operations, procurement and subawards.

Physical Demands:

This position operates in a professional office environment and routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

• This position would require opening filing cabinets and bending or standing on a stool and may require the ability to lift files/folders/boxes, as necessary;
• Ability to travel to Washington, DC at least four times a year, or as required by the donor, required;
• In addition to travel to Washington, DC, this position may require travel up to 20% of the time to domestic and international locations with varying distances, duration, and modes of transport.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Unless otherwise specified, CVs will be retained in our database in anticipation of other opportunities.

URC is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

We value and seek diversity in our workforce.